Re: [UUG/MLUG] Cheap Linux Printer?

[Scott McCool <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have a Canon BJC 610 that works fine with linux.  But I probably won't
ever buy another Canon ink jet... The 600 series and my girlfriends 2000C
both chew up ink like mad.  The ink will evaporate in my 610 over the
course of a couple months even if nothing is printed... I've had nothing
but trouble with Canon printers.

At ECC we use a Laserjet 6L that has been great.  It's quiet, quick, and
looks great.  We haven't replaced a cartridge yet.  My next printer will
probably be a laserjet.

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Scott McCool
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:

> Hmm.... Well I hooked up my mom with a Linux box a couple of months ago
> and her parallel port Canon BJ200 Ink Jet printer worked perfectly
> out of the box.  I just hooked it up and lpr defaulted to knowing it was
> there. I did absolutely nothing and it printed.  Of course you only 
> get the fonts the printer knows natively but courier and times is fine
> with mom :).
> 
> If you want to use WordPerfect for Linux it has internally quite a few 
> printer drivers that WordPerfect uses to format the data and send
> it to lpr.
> 
> Of course my situation could be one of those "lucky" incidents where it
> all just magically worked.
> 
> -jeremy
> 
> 
>  
> On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:18:02AM -0500, Scott Greathouse wrote:
> > I have finally had it with my crappy Windows-only printer (an HP 820Cse
> > color inkjet printer). I'm hoping that I may be able to get a new one
> > for Christmas, so...
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for a printer?
> > My qualifications are:
> > 1. Linux compatible printer that won't require any Windows-only printer
> > voodoo to get it to work
> > 2. As cheap as possible or at least not horrifyingly expensive -- sorry
> > to be so vague.
> > It does not need to print in color, nor be a laser printer. I don't even
> > care if it is slow.
> > It would be really cool if it were ethernet compatible or upgradeable
> > (though I realize this will cost me) -- either 10 or 100 megabit.
> > I've already looked around a bit, but I'd rather hear from the people
> > who use the printers rather than the ones who sell them.
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
> > 
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>  Jeremy Hinegardner             EMAIL:PROTECTED
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>  University of Missouri - Columbia
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